Has anyone had trouble with the DU site lately?

[doc03]

The last couple days after being on DU for a few minutes a virus or something takes over my computer and it goes wacko. Whatever it is stops me from closing my browser or even shutting off my computer, I even disconnected from the net. The only way I was able to stop it was with the power switch. This morning for the third day straight the same thing happened, this time I shut off my modem as soon as it started and I got it stopped. This has only happened while on DU, I have run my virus program and no problems are detected.

[CJCRANE]

1. Seems OK to me. Nothing to report nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Yes -- happens when I go to my ignore list every time.

[scheming daemons]

3. The only trouble I have noticed is a large uptick in the number of trolls lately....

...no issues with the site itself, though.

[tsuki]

4. I had trouble, with no virus. I kept getting pop-up windows for ads.

I started looking and noticed firefox or something had load a tool called something like Interoptions. It kept loading ads. I uninstalled and took out a lot of cookies, and it stopped.

I must have restarted my computer about 5 times. At one time, it was loading 48 windows that were blank. And it only happened on DU.

[doc03]

7. That sounds like the same problem,

web addresses start popping up one after the other and I have no control of anything. I was alright this morning, I shut my modem off as soon as it started and was able to close the browser. I haven't had any trouble anywhere but DU, it started Wednesday I think..

[tsuki]

9. Go to your tool bar and see if there is another option above the "Options."

Uninstall it. I think it was called Interoptions. Reboot, and run a spyware program. Isolate or delete all the cookies it turns up. I had to manually delete some "context" cookies.

[City Lights]

5. That's not happening to me.

Sorry, I have no idea why it's happening to you.

[FSogol]

6. Sounds like your computer is infected with spyware or viruses

Do you run and update a decent virus program?

I use:

AVG Free
http://free.avg.com/

and for spyware:

Spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

Spyware Blaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

and to keep things clean:

http://www.ccleaner.com/

HTH

[doc03]

8. I have AVG and it updates and scans the computer every Friday

and hasn't detected any virus. I ran a scan last night and no virus.

[tsuki]

10. It is not a virus. Use the spybot. nt

[FSogol]

11. It is spyware then. Run spybot. n/t